Misti's review
Galapagos
by Kurt Vonnegut
Misti's review
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Misti's review
rating:
bookshelves:
allegory,
science-fiction
recommended for: everyone
I know a lot of people who think that Breakfast of Champions or Cat's Cradle or Slaughter House Five are the best ever Vonnegut books, but those are the ones they probably were forced to read in school. I think those are all quite clever, but when I read through Galapagos the first time, I thought it was so much more than the others. It's a perfectly executed post-apocolyptic novel with narration jumping back and forth in time without getting confusing (which is a rare thing these days).
The book has the classic Vonnegut wit and charm, without a lot of the lewder elements of Breakfast. There's plenty of objectionable content here for people to get enraged over; evolution, incest, nuclear war, bigamy, so on and so forth, but let's face it, this wouldn't be a Vonnegut book without it.
What really makes ...more
The book has the classic Vonnegut wit and charm, without a lot of the lewder elements of Breakfast. There's plenty of objectionable content here for people to get enraged over; evolution, incest, nuclear war, bigamy, so on and so forth, but let's face it, this wouldn't be a Vonnegut book without it.
What really makes ...more
